This is a great book to add to your parenting library. The author focuses on children's mental health, which is so important but unfortunately often gets overlooked in our efforts to get everything done. I am a big believer that it is crucial to give our kids a positive outlook on life and understand where they are coming from before judging any of their actions. I highly recommend this book.

As a psychology major and as someone that works as an instructional aide for a school, I believe it is imperative to focus on ensuring that our children are psychology healthy. The author of this book focuses on what we can do to help our children have a healthier mental outlook. This was a great read!

Thank you to Net Gallery and Exisle Publishing for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

This book is for any parent not just those who’s children are struggling with anxiety or their mental health. Every parent needs to be mind kind (I love the phrase) and this book really made me think about how everything I do as a mum impacts upon my children’s mental health. Things that I wouldn’t even think about.

The break down of the different areas of concern make this a useful quick reference guide if there is something of immediate worry e.g, eating habits or introducing a new partner and I also appreciated the chapter on child development.

For me it brought into focus a few areas where I can see improvements could be made (I am it seems a much more rigid parent than I thought) whilst at the same time lifting me up as a parent and encouraging me.

A very good reference (although written in a very reader friendly way) book that all parents should have on their shelves.

This is a sensible, well written book which doesn't talk down to the reader even when the advice seems a little obvious. Bringing up children doesn't end at any particular age, nor does it get any easier as time goes on. In fact it is more likely to involve spouses and grandchildren as well and the problems they need help with.

When we have a situation where our children are struggling or their behaviour is a cause for concern it is easy to ignore the obvious or lack the confidence to help. This book gives you a heads up as to how to recognize the best way to not only empathise but also promote better behaviour or understanding of the situation they find themselves in.

I felt the author had a real grasp of what type of help and encouragement the harried parents drawn to this book might require and it is one I will definitely keep at hand in the future.

I was able to read an advanced copy of this book thanks to NetGalley  and the publishers and would recommend it to anyone who needs a little help now and again with this parenting lark.